Bench outside Hogarth House
Hogarth House is one of the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway.
Building the Middleway Blocks
Building of the four Middleway Blocks commenced in the early nineteen sixties. At the time this picture was taken significant land clearance has obviously taken place in what was to become the open parkland ...
Construction in Lee Bank
View of new properties under construction by Crest Nicholson. This view is taken looking towards the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway, from the balcony of the old Community Centre on Gaywood Croft.
Conversation
Four youths in conversation somewhere near to Hogarth House. Lewis Green was very interested in capturing people going about their daily business.
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Redevelopment was well advanced when this photograph was taken in Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, presumably in the 1960s. Tower blocks and great sweeps of grass have replaced the streets of Victorian ...
Hogarth House and Lee Bank Road
This photograph was taken by City Engineers to show the retaining wall of Lee Bank itself. This is the white stretch of wall running along the middle distance. Behind it can be seen Lee Crescent and Lee ...
Lee Bank pool
View of Lee Bank pool in January 1973. In the distance left to right are the James Brindley School, Hogarth House, Faraday House, Chiswick House, Audleigh House and Chatsworth Tower. This photograph was ...
Lee Bank Redevelopment Plan
The original architect's view of the Lee Bank redevelopment. The tower blocks are as follows: Hogarth, Faraday, Chiswick and Audleigh House are the four blocks running up the left hand side on Lee Bank ...
Lewis Green - Local Photographer
Lewis Green lived at Hogarth House and took a large number of photographs of the Lee Bank area. As was common at the time he had them developed as slides and would show them in his living room to interested ...
Looking towards Hogarth House
Gwen Hatton and her sister Florence Lee posing for the camera outside Faraday House. In the background is Hogarth House. Hogarth House is probably named after the eighteenth century painter and lithographer ...
Middleway to Bath Row
This view captures the changing face of the Lee Bank area. In the foreground we have two of the Middleway blocks built as part of the urban renewal of the nineteen fifties and sixties. The road running ...
New Era on Lee Bank Middleway
Faraday and Hogarth House on Lee Bank Middleway during the urban renewal. To the right Chiswick House can be seen still under construction. Also some of the old housing on Lee Bank Road (as it was) is ...
Old and New
Faraday House and to the right Hogarth House. In the middle distance is Wilkes Greengrocers and the road leading off up the hill is Pigott Street. Just to the right and behind Hogarth House would be Chatsworth ...
Radio-cassette and chest of drawers
Lewis Green was evidently very fond of his radio cassette, it crops up in a few pictures and he even took it away on holiday with him. Here it is in his flat on top of a chest of drawers. Many people ...
The gardens at the Middleway Blocks
This photograph was taken by resident May Williams. The four blocks, Hogarth, Faraday, Audleigh and Chiswick are still there today. Much of the surrounding development from the fifties and sixties has ...
The Middleway Blocks
This is another one from May Williams. May took several pictures around the blocks. At the time they may have seemed rather uninteresting but they now act as a record of the commonplace and serve as a ...
The Middleway Blocks
This photograph, by Lewis Green, catches children from the former Lea Mason Secondary School having a break in the play area which used to be located by the four Middleway blocks. The blocks were erected ...
Washday on Hogarth House
For these two ladies (one is Lewis Green's mother) this was a very different washday experience. Both would have remembered the "brew 'us" in the yards of the back to back housing and the network of lines ...